The 5th Rectors’ Forum for Top Iranian and Russian Universities held virtually
 

The 5th Rectors’ Forum for Top Iranian and Russian Universities held virtually on July 7.2020
This is the 5th of the series of Forums held by Iran and Russia top universities since 2015. These events held alternatively by University of Tehran and Lomonosov Moscow State University each year.
Dr. Mansour Gholami, Minister of Science, Research and Technology of Iran and Dr. Valery Mikolaevich Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation, as well as Ambassadors of the two countries, and Senior Advisor to I.R. Iran Foreign Minster attended this virtual meeting.
At the beginning of the session the Ministers and Ambassadors of Iran and Russia presented comments on the higher education policies between the two countries and stressed the expanding of the cooperation despite the condition resulted by covide-19 pandemic. Then rectors of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and University of Tehran mentioned the four previous forums and their achievements. Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University stressed the cooperation with the Association of the State Universities of Caspian Sea Region Countries and the Association of the Universities of Eurasia that was welcomed by many of the attendees.
In this session that Prof. Jabbarali Zakeri, Chancellor of IUST, attended as presenter, the rectors of two countries presented reports on their cooperation and mentioned the collaboration grounds.
The top universities from Iran and Russian that attended the event were including Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran University, Sharif University of Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran University of Medical Sciences, K.N. Toosi University of Technology from Iran and Lomonosov Moscow State University, Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Dagestan State University, Astrakhan State University, Southern Federal University, North Ossetian State University after K. L. Khetagurov, Russian New University and Association of non-state universities of Russia.
Since 2015 four joint forums with the presence of the university rectors and delegations from Iran and Russia were held alternatively in University of Tehran and Lomonosov Moscow State University. The achievements are signing an MoU on establishing an association of the universities of Iran and Russian, establishing the permanent secretariat of the association of the universities of Iran and Russian in the Lomonosov Moscow State University and University of Tehran, applying the two parties capabilities for development of science and technology, and cooperation in supplying demands and finding solution for challenges in the two countries by developing the inter- university network and joining it to the technical sections.
Other subjects that agreed upon and accomplished in the four forums are signing of four joint statement emphasizing expanding of the academic relationship between the two countries, continuation of the joint sessions alternatively in the two countries, signing of several cooperation documents between the universities of the two countries on holding joint educational courses, workshops, joint research projects, exchange of students and faculty members, joint publishing, cooperation in the fields such as aerospace, mathematics, medicine, biology, laboratory sciences, Education of Russian and Persian languages, Russian and Iran studies, mathematical sciences, etc.